Publisher's Synopsis
John Chambers, el visionario de Silicon Valley, comparte las lecciones que transformaron a un niño disléxico en uno de los mejores lìderes empresariales del mundo y convirtieron a una simple empresa de enrutadores en un titán tecnológico mundial.
Cuando Chambers se unió a Cisco, en 1991, era una empresa con 400 empleados, un solo producto y unos 70 millones de dólares en ingresos. Cuando dejó su puesto de ceo en 2015, dejó un gigante tecnológico de 47 mil millones de dólares que era la columna vertebral de internet y un lìder en áreas desde la ciberseguridad hasta la convergencia de centros de datos. En el camino, adquirió 180 compañìas y convirtió a más de 10 mil empleados en millonarios. Ampliamente reconocido como un innovador, lìder de la industria y uno de los mejores ceo del mundo, Chambers ha superado a prácticamente todos los rivales que alguna vez intentaron enfrentar a Cisco: Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, ibm, Dell y Hewlett-Packard, por nombrar a unos pocos.
Ahora, Chambers comparte sus estrategias únicas para ganar en un mundo digital. Desde sus primeras lecciones hasta sus audaces apuestas y batallas con algunos de los nombres más importantes de la tecnologìa, Chambers ofrece a los lectores un libro de jugadas sobre cómo actuar antes de que el mercado cambie, seleccionar clientes para la estrategia, asociarse para el crecimiento, construir equipos y desafiarse a sì mismos
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan.
When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he left a $47 billion tech giant that was the backbone of the internet and a leader in areas from cybersecurity to data center convergence. Along the way, he had acquired 180 companies and turned more than 10,000 employees into millionaires. Widely recognized as an innovator, an industry leader, and one of the world's best CEOs, Chambers has outlasted and outmaneuvered practically every rival that ever tried to take Cisco on--Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, IBM, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few.
Now Chambers is sharing his unique strategies for winning in a digital world. From his early lessons and struggles with dyslexia in West Virginia to his bold bets and battles with some of the biggest names in tech, Chambers gives readers a playbook on how to act before the market shifts, tap customers for strategy, partner for growth, build teams, and disrupt themselves. He also adapted those lessons to transform government, helping global leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to create new models for growth.
As CEO of JC2 Ventures, he's now investing in a new generation of game-changing startups by helping founders become great leaders and scale their companies.
Connecting the Dots is destined to become a business classic, providing hard-won insights and critical tools to thrive during the accelerating disruption of the digital age.
